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I read about tmpfs and got curious to get the benefits from it. So, I created a directory and mounted as tmpfs.
So, as per theory, whatever is written in tmpfs gets stored on RAM directly and lasts ...

How to have the advantages of tmpfs and not be limited to its small size?
I'm thinking of a shell script that runs as a daemon, monitors RAM and adds more swap files in specified folder, when memory ...

If I create a ram disk on cent os using tmpfs will it go away on restart? I know the data will go away (I would assume), but will it still survive a reboot?
I am going to allocate a ram disk for use ...

I'm learning how to set up a tmpfs in fstab for my www-data user and I was wondering if I can use the actual user/group name instead if the numeric ids (personal preference)?
I'm on Debian with ext4, ...

Dolphin (The KDE4 FM) would not receive file change notifications for /dev/shm, but for /run/shm.
So now I would like to migrate /dev/shm/ to /run/shm, but I couldn't find the corresponding part in ...

I want to create a live system on a USB key / SDCard with Linux Mint 14 (KDE or Debian Edition) that stores data persistently. The USB key needs to have at least one fat32 partition. As storage for ...

I use avconv to make screen recording of gameplays on linux (yeah, I'm sorry, I am one of them, but I get more excited about the scripts than playing it self), but recently my harddrive has gone and ...

I just went into /etc/fstab (Linux) and changed my line for /tmp (on which a specific ext4 partition was previously mounted) to tmpfs. This was clearly a bit silly, but I wasn't thinking. Anyway, I ...

How to be sure that a tmpfs filesystem can only deal with physical and it's not using a swap partition on disk ?
Since i have a slow HDD and a fast RAM i would like, at least, giving higher priority ...

I have started tuning a bit Linux VM performance on my system (yes. I know that vm.swappiness=0 will kill kittens but I found 30-40 as much better for me as it improved my latency - probably at cost ...